This is just the fourth step, but it is amazing how long the first three steps have taken to get here. They probably took you more work and effort, but from this point forward it goes pretty quickly.

It is actually quite easy to do. There is just one difficult part which we will consider next.

Sowing Your Seeds

Let's start with the sowing part. What are you going to sow? What did Jesus say in the parable we considered? He said,

The sower sows the word

Sow the Right Words

The best seed that you have to sow is words. Why is that? It is because you are planting deep within you down into your spirit, and words come from your spirit.

Words contain spiritual essence. A seed contains the essence of life in it, that when it is germinated it will bring forth life and reproduction. In the same way our words (the right ones) can contain the potential to release the power that can get you the things that you desire.

This can't be just any words. The Scripture speaks about us one day having to give account of every idle word that we spoke.

How many of your words are idle? Your words should not just be idle words or talk, but they should be specific words. If you are going to plant a seed you must be specific.

Your words must be pure. That means you must get rid of anger and bitterness.

How many of the words that come out of your mouth are words that you wouldn't like the general public to hear you speak when you get angry and bitter? We even speak some of those words against the Lord.

Your words must be positive. This is very important, because sometimes people seem to think that making a confession is fine if we say it is negative. You might say something like,

"I am never going to get angry again."

What picture do you see when you say that? I see somebody who is angry. Or you say,

"I'm never going to be poor again."

What do you see in your mind? I see a poor person.

You say, "I'm never going to be sick again. I'm never going to have pain in my body again."

The picture I am seeing is the very thing that I am trying to avoid. So the seeds that you sow which are the words that you are going to speak, must be positive words.

Based on Your Core Desire

That is why you need a core desire. The words that you speak must be based on that desire.

The words that you speak must not be based on the things you don't want. You already have those. If you continue to plant those seeds you are going to get more of them.

You might say,

"I can't understand what is happening. I have been confessing."

What have you been confessing? You have been confessing the negative and you keep reaping the same thing over and over again.

You know I can't bear preachers who are always standing up and preaching the law. They condemn Christians and tell them that if they don't sort themselves out, they are going to lose their salvation.

They are going to go to hell. And the Lord is going to judge them, condemn them and things are going to go wrong in their lives.

Some people have heard that preaching for so long that they are saturated with those negative seeds. Then they wonder why everything is going wrong in their lives.

If you are in a church that gives that kind of preaching, get out of there! Go away and find somebody who preaches a positive message. Get the right seeds in otherwise you are going to get a harvest of destruction.

Watering Your Seeds

You have planted our seeds now. You have put them in the ground and covered them up. The next thing you have to do is water those seeds. If you don't do that they are going to lie there forever.

You know seeds can keep for years until they meet moisture. And when that moisture hits the seeds they come to life.

So how do you water your seeds?

Well in the natural you take a watering can and pour the water on. Here you already have an idea of what to do. You see words are not enough. They have to be watered by actions.

We saw that words produce faith. As words build up inside us they produce faith. But the Scripture says that faith without corresponding action is dead. In the same way that your seeds are dead without water, so your words without actions are dead.

You may have been talking for years about what you are going to get from the Lord. But you may have never lifted a finger to try and make it happen. Then you say,

"I can't understand why nothing is happening. I have been asking the Lord for a husband, but he hasn't arrived yet."

Well did you expect the doorbell to ring one day and there he would be standing? Or did you go out and try and meet a few men and see if one of them is suitable.

You say, "I'm not the social kind of person. I prefer sitting at home and watching TV."

That is going to get you a husband, right? You can fall in love with a guy in a movie and imagine you are married to him, but he is not going to jump out of the screen to become your husband.

God doesn't work that way. You have to put action to your faith. Action releases faith and it also reinforces desires.

When I see somebody talking about what they want, I can wonder if they really mean it. But then I may see them starting to do whatever they can to try and get it.

I see how they go out of their way, even if they bump their head, make mistakes, get up and keep going. When I see somebody trying to put into action to get whatever they want, then I see that they have real desire.

You know the strange thing is as you begin to speak and act these things out, the feelings start to come. Perhaps your core desire wasn't red hot yet. But the more you speak and the more you act, the more it begins to fan it to flame.

Adding Appropriate Action

Then you need to plant not only word seeds, but action as well. You are going to add action to your seeds in this way.

Firstly what kind of seed are you planting? Are you planting a temporal seed? Do you want things from the Lord like money and wealth? Or do you maybe want health or relationships?

Perhaps you want something spiritual from the Lord. Perhaps you want a new touch of His anointing and power; or maybe a greater understanding of the Word. Maybe you want an ability to walk in righteousness and to overcome sin.

Your seeds are either going to be temporal or they are going to be spiritual. That is the harvest you are looking for.

Well is it wrong to want a temporal harvest? No it isn't wrong. Your harvest doesn't only have to be spiritual. But if you want a temporal harvest, then perhaps you also need to plant some temporal seeds.

What does that mean? It means that if you want money, how much money are you planting? You might ask me,

"Is that what I think you're saying? I have to start giving things away?"

Yes that is exactly what I am saying. If you want to receive money, are you ready to give it away? If you want to receive a harvest of wealth, are you prepared to give out?

Using Your Big Guns

That might not sound so good to you, but let me tell you about the big guns. I have taught this in many places.

I once read a devotional from a devotional book called God Calling. It was called The Law of Supply and it went something like this.

When it seems that the supply has run out, you must realize that it has not. Look around and see what you can find to give away.

You say, "But hang on, I need things and you're telling me to give away what I don't have?"

I'm sure you have something to give. You don't have nothing, because you are not living on the street without clothes. You have something that you can give away.

We have found in our own experience that we sometimes reach a place of desperation, especially financially. Then if we want to break that dam and release the blessing of God, we take out of our lack and we plant a seed. We sow a seed and give out in faith, hope and love.

I have shared before that I proved this once many years ago at a time when we were in desperate financial need. We didn't have the money to pay our rent and it was due. I don't think we even had half of the rent money. As I looked to the Lord He said to me,

"Sow a seed."

So I took the money and I gave a large amount of it to somebody as a birthday gift because we were invited to their party. I knew they were also battling financially so I gave that money away. This made me very unpopular with my spouse at that time because she didn't understand what I was doing.

Well previously I had a third of my rent, but now I only had a tenth of it. That was foolish of me, wasn't it? I still had all that money to accumulate.

But it wasn't foolish, because it didn't take long for my seed to begin to bear forth fruit. People came to my house and said,

"God told me to give this to you."

Then they would give me an envelope of cash. Someone else called me up and said,

"I have just sold my business. We have a lot of money, and we feel we would like to sow into you and give you some money."

Wow, I got a lot more than my rent money let me tell you. I have always called this taking out our big guns. I have taught this when it comes to temporal things, but what happens about spiritual things?

Do need something spiritual from the Lord? Do you need ministry, or do you need God to impart to you? Well what do you have to give to others?

You say, "I'm waiting for the anointing to come on me and then I'm going to go out and minister."

"I'm believing God for the power of healing. When it comes I'll start to pray for the sick."

Start looking around you and see how many sick people there are.

You might say to me,

"But I don't have the power of healing yet."

"Well why don't you just go and pray for the sick?"

"But nothing is going to happen."

"How do you know nothing is going to happen?"

You say, "Because I don't have the gift of healing."

Stepping onto Nothing

You are never going to get it that way, because you are not prepared to give out of your nothingness. You are not prepared to sow.

You say, "But I don't feel like praying now. I don't feel the anointing or the Spirit moving."

You see that is when you begin to take out your big guns and say,

"I feel the most unworthy and the most incapable of being used by God."

Somebody may need a prophetic word but you say,

"I've never prophesied before."

I faced a situation in my first church where I could speak in tongues but I couldn't interpret. People started to bring messages in tongues in the meeting and I kept waiting for an interpreter to bring the interpretation.

Then one day someone said to me,

"You know you're the pastor. People expect you to interpret tongues."

I thought, "But I can't interpret."

He said to me,

"Give it a try."

You would be amazed at what happens when you do that. The next time someone gave a word in tongues I opened my mouth and said,

"Thus says the Lord.."

I was amazed to find that as I started to speak a few things started to come out and I thought,

"Did I make that up?"

Well nobody else thought I made it up because it seemed to minister and people figured it was a good interpretation.

Was it really good? I don't know, but before long I was flowing so well in interpretation that I could interpret both my own and other peoples' tongues. It was because I stepped out.

Take out your big guns, whether it be in the temporal realm or in the spiritual realm, or whatever it is that you are believing God for.

Put action to your seeds, because action will bring the water that is going to cause those seeds to germinate and begin to grow. It will suck up the fertilizer and bear forth fruit.

Other Things to Do

Don't think that you have to only do this once.

You say, "You know I planted my seeds and I watered them. Now we'll just wait for the fruit."

It doesn't work that way does it? You will have to go back and water again and again.

If the ground dries out very quickly with hot, sunny weather, you may have to water it every day, every couple of days or at least once a week. You have to do it again and again.

Here is another problem; the fact that not all the seeds that you plant will grow. Some of them will die and you may have to do some more planting along the way. You may have to add some more seeds because a lot of them just didn't grow.

Plant some seeds again and keep watering. Do this over and over again.

Develop your core desire, know your rights and prepare your ground. Plant your seeds and water them. These are the first four important steps towards harvesting your desires.

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